The Region’s Main Cancer Charity
Lingen Davies Cancer Support is the main cancer charity dedicated to supporting the people of Shropshire, Telford, and Mid Wales as they deal with the impact of cancer on their lives.
Lingen Davies Cancer Support is the main cancer charity dedicated to supporting the people of Shropshire, Telford, and Mid Wales as they deal with the impact of cancer on their lives.
We’ve launched our biggest appeal to date – The Sunflower Appeal – a £5million appeal to grow cancer care across our region. This will be done through the creation of a Lingen Davies Chemotherapy Centre in Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital, which will be up and running by 2029.
Combined with the existing chemotherapy services in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, this development will double capacity across our region, meaning patients can access the treatment they need, where they need, quicker!
We’re holding community engagement events across the region for people to find out more.
Telford Town Centre – Saturday, 21st June
Wellington Market Square – Saturday, 28th June
Further dates will be planned across our region – watch this space!
The new Lingen Davies Cancer Centre in Telford will deliver all additional services to those already running in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, and nothing will be moving from RSH to PRH.
The dedicated new facility will provide for outpatients clinics, up to 30 chemotherapy bays, a Lung Diagnostic Centre, and Urology Investigations Unit. Intended to open in 2029, the new Cancer Centre will double the provision of chemotherapy across our region meaning those living in or around Telford will be able to access care closer to home. And those living elsewhere across the county and Mid Wales will be able to access care at the Lingen Davies Cancer Centre at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital quicker and easier.
Developed in collaboration with the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust the new Cancer Centre forms part of the wider Hospitals Transformation Project.
Currently 37% of patients accessing care in the Lingen Davies Cancer Centre have a TF postcode. Offering services that are closer to home for them, and freeing up capacity for others in RSH, will reduce stress and associated worry about lengthy wait times.
Lingen Davies was originally launched in 1979 by then Mayor of Shrewsbury Bernard Lingen and local accountant Frank Davies, to build and equip a new radiotherapy department at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. Since this establishment, the charity has grown to deliver services, equipment, technology, staff, and cancer support to the wider community.
Over the years an entire new Cancer Centre has been created on the site, including state of the art facilities and treatment to benefit cancer patients throughout the community.
The charity exists to enhance and improve the situation for local cancer patients. We cannot eradicate cancer, but we can make life easier for those who are going through it, or watching loved ones go through it.
We have grown from a small charity run by a handful of people who helped others raise money, to a major local charity, not only fundraising for enhanced services and treatment at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, but also actively delivering projects with partners and local health bodies. Our LiveLife Cancer Awareness Service is dedicated to working in the wider community, to reach more people and help them have a greater understanding of cancer – which one in two of us will get during our lifetime, according to Cancer Research UK statistics.
We want everyone to be aware of the simple steps they can take themselves to reduce the chances of getting cancer. We want people to know the importance of attending cancer screening invitations, recognise worrying signs and symptoms in their own bodies, and know where to turn for support.
We recognise that while our team of wonderful NHS clinicians do everything they can to help cancer patients medically; we can fund and provide additional cancer support and services to benefit patients, their families, and the wider community.
Looking forward, we have plans to grow, reaching further into BAME groups throughout our region, grow our service delivery work, and facilitate easier access into all parts of our region with our mobile LiveLife Cancer Awareness Service. We already work alongside Severn Hospice, LifeStyle Fitness, and the 5K Your Way Parkrun group to deliver and promote services that will benefit those going through cancer treatment and living beyond it.
Your cancer donation can make a positive difference to lives affected by cancer in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Mid-Wales.
